Napster, the song-swapping network, will be allowed to examine documents from the major record labels that show how they agreed to form two online music ventures, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Napster is looking for evidence of copyright misuse to...

America's major record companies, which successfully sued to shut down the online music-swapping service Napster, suffered a setback today as the judge in the case allowed Napster to seek evidence that the record companies colluded to monopolize the...

The major record companies, which two weeks ago surprised analysts by seeking a temporary suspension in their copyright lawsuit against Napster, were about to face potentially damaging inquiries into their own behavior on maintaining copyrights. ...

A federal judge has granted a request by four of the five major record companies to suspend their three-year-old lawsuit against Napster, the Internet music service that exploded in popularity by allowing users to freely exchange songs and was deemed...

The major record labels have asked a federal judge to issue a summary judgment in their copyright case against Napster, according to court papers made public yesterday. The brief was filed on Tuesday with Federal District Judge Marilyn Patel. Last...

Lawyers for the Napster Internet music service today asked a federal appeals court here to set aside a judge's order that it remain offline until it has shown it has made ''every effort'' to prevent the exchange of copyrighted audio files not...

A federal judge today ordered that the Napster music-sharing service remain shut down until it can prove that it can more effectively filter copyrighted material. Company officials said that they would appeal.

A federal judge overseeing the case against Napster Inc. essentially threw up her hands and appealed for help today in stopping the exchange of copyrighted songs. For the moment, her memorandum guarantees that Napster users can continue...

Confronted with evidence that thousands of copyright works remain on Napster, the online music service, a federal judge today called the company's efforts to filter music ''a disgrace.'' The judge, Marilyn Patel of the United States District Court...

April 11, 2001, Wednesday

The recording industry and Napster, ordered by a federal judge to cooperate in filtering copyrighted music from the online service, are instead attacking each other, each asserting the other is failing to comply with the injunction handed down...